An officer of the Saudi religious police, patrolling a park for unmarried couples illegally socializing, met physical resistance after he stopped a young couple walking together.
US Forces-Afghanistan has launched a criminal investigation into allegations that a “small number of US soldiers were responsible for the unlawful deaths of as many as three Afghan civilians.”
Mexican President Felipe Calderón, speaking at the US Congress, urged reinstatement of the assault-weapon ban, saying violence in Mexico escalated when it expired six years ago.
In a harrowing report from Juárez, National Public Radio provides further evidence that the Mexican government is tilting to the Sinaloa Cartel in the country’s increasingly violent narco wars.
Retired Mexican army general Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, shot in an supposed mugging, is a veteran of counterinsurgency operations who was investigated for links to the Juárez Cartel.
Afghan opium farmers are convinced that a fungus outbreak that has damaged poppy crops is US biological warfare. The Pentagon has considered using opium-eating fungi before.
A proposed strategy document dubbed “NATO 2020” calls for an expanded readiness and capacity to operate beyond the borders of member states, and names the campaign in Afghanistan as a top priority.
Former Mexican presidential candidate and a leader of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) Diego Fernández de Cevallos was declared missing, in an attack being blamed on narco gangs.
Indigenous leaders in Ecuador announced the temporary lifting of their protest campaign against the pending national water law as lawmakers failed to reach a deal on putting off debate.
At least six were killed—three Serbians and three Bolivians—and one kidnapped in an assault perpetrated by suspected drug traffickers in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department.
Noam Chomsky, once demonized as a crypto-Zionist on this website, has been barred by Israeli authorities from entering the West Bank.
A Detroit area mosque was vandalized twice in a week, in a possible case of backlash following the attempted Times Square terror attack.
